(April 4, 2014 at 12:47 pm)Alex K Wrote:He's selling himself short; the question was crap as well.(April 4, 2014 at 12:24 pm)Tonus Wrote: Why bother with the rest of it if you were going to answer your own question in the very next breath?Maybe spidey suspects that his answers are crap and wanted a second opinion
I find it amusing when you get someone who is clearly approaching the issue from the wrong end and doesn't realize that his own answer to his question really does answer the question. "How could the big bang have occurred? There must be an uncaused first cause!" Well, if you insist... there's an uncaused first cause. Let's just call it "the big bang" and press our "That Was Easy" button!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
